HGTV Green Home 2011: Front Yard Pictures

Inspired by the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright and combined with subtle nods to airplane design, the front facade of HGTV Green Home serves up both style and comfortable outdoor living space.

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The landscape design incorporates native and ornamental grasses growing in the park across the street from the home. In keeping with the home’s prairie style, plants and shrubs that comeplement the vertical design were chosen.

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English oak creates a privacy fence to buffer the outdoor space from the road. “We wanted the owner to have the ability to sit and enjoy that outdoor fire pit without having to see everybody that walked by,” says landscape architect Brad Fox.

A cantilever shades the front entry. Inspired by airplane design, the roof is sheathed in a standing seam metal roof panel with a factory-applied finish. The underside is clad in 4-inch tongue-and-groove cedar.

The cantilever, supported by two steel beams, features a slight slope that allows water to drain into integral gutters along the roof’s perimeter. The structure is designed and built to withstand snow loads of 30 pounds per square foot as well as winds of up to 90 miles per hour.

The home exterior is clad in smooth and scraped synthetic limestone and fiber-cement siding, a product composed of 50-percent recycled content (fly ash) and wood-fiber pulp supplied from sustainably managed forests.